[TUHS] UNIX System V Release 2.2 gdts Vax-780

[Seth Morabito]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, at 2:08 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 5:03 PM Warren Toomey via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
>> I'm still worried about my legal butt :-(
> Probably a good idea. 
>> 
>> But I'd be interested in the viewpoints of people here on the list.
> The Ancient UNIX license does not release anything beyond V7 - as the document you have on the site (https://www.tuhs.org/ancient.html) says:
> 
>> 1.9 SUCCESSOR OPERATING SYSTEM means a SCO software offering that is (i) specifically designed for a 16-Bit computer, or (ii) the 32V version, and (iii) specifically excludes UNIX System V and successor operating systems.
> SVR4 is by definition System V.

Do we know with any certainty who currently owns the System V intellectual property? I think (probably) it's now the Canadian company OpenText, who just bought Micro Focus in January, who absorbed the Attachmate Group in 2014, who bought Novell in 2011, who gobbled up USL in 1992... what a tangled web. I don't even know where one would begin trying to track down someone to give permission to archive System V source code.

-Seth
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  Seth Morabito * Poulsbo, WA * https://loomcom.com/